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This year’s 17th issue of Shueisha’s You magazine has revealed that a live-action television drama series of Satoru Makimura’s Real Clothes fashion manga has been green-lit for an October premiere. The story centers on Kinue Amano, a drab, lowly saleswoman stuck in the futon department of a giant Tokyo department store. Kinue’s life — and fashion sense — change when she is moved up to the high-profile, high-stress ladies’ fashion department.

Makimura has been drawing the original manga in You magazine since 2006, and Shueisha has published 900,000 copies of the seven current volumes. Last September, the model and actress Karina played Kinue in a live-action television drama special. More details about the new drama series version will be announced in future issue of You magazine.

Today they finally revealed the heroine and “beach hut madonna” of the upcoming movie “Ooarai nimo Hoshi wa Furu Nari” at the press conference for the 2nd Comedy Film Festivals in Taito, Tokyo. This movie is a romantic comedy about 7 different guys competing over one single girl and this lone girl is going to be played by no other than the beautiful Toda Erika.

The male cast for the 7 different characters already looked promising right from the start, not only for girls. Yamada Takayuki (25, Crows Zero 2), Yamamoto Yusuke (21, Rookies), Muro Tsuyoshi (33, After School), Oyanagi Yuu (20, Tokyo Sonata), Shiraishi Shunya (19, Gokusen), Yasuda Ken (35, Cycle Soul Apartment) and Sato Jiro (40, 20th Century Boys) – There seems to be a great variety of different kind of actors.

Toda Erika is going to play the girl called Madonna Eriko who is being surrounded by several obscure men like a narcissistic stalker (Yamada) or a late-blooming shark otaku (Yamamoto). “It’s the first time that I’m the only woman in the cast.” She commented. The choice wasn’t that difficult according to the news on the official site, because she’s one of the few actresses who is capable of being cute and cool at the same time.

With the announcement, they now officially ended the big quiz “Who will be the Madonna?” and are in the middle of drawing the winners. They also promised to update the official site with new footage including Toda’s role very soon. The movie is going to screen at the festival that’s taking place from 09/21 to 09/25. The official release is going to be around November later this year.

Taiwan’s
pop singer Jay Chou will star alongside Nicolas Cage and Cameron Diaz
in the movie remake of popular US television series "The Green Hornet,"
reports here said on Saturday.

Chou, 30, has been cast as the
superhero’s sidekick Kato, a role played by the late Chinese-American
martial arts icon Bruce Lee about 40 years ago, said the United Daily
News.

"I am very happy to act in an international film. I will
do my best," the paper quoted Chou as saying in a statement issued by
his company JVR Music.

Chou won the role after a video-link
audition a month ago with the movie’s director Michel Gondry and writer
Seth Rogen, who will play the lead role Britt Reid, or The Green
Hornet, the report said.

Chou will start shooting for the film,
scheduled to be released on July 9 2010, after wrapping up his
directorial work for a television series and two concerts in China, it
said.

The Apple Daily said Chou replaced Hong Kong star Stephen
Chow, who was originally set to direct and act in the film, but had
pulled out due to differences with Columbia Pictures.

Chou,
also famous in China, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia for his pop music,
has expanded into filmmaking in recent years, starring in a number of
box-office hits including "Initial D," "The Curse of the Golden Flower"
and "Secret."